Went for my detailed scan (week 21+) on 17th March. We reached TMC at 2.45pm and left the place at 6pm! All the waiting and scanning made me so tired and hungry! Glad everything was over now with the results showing NORMAL! I had passed another stage of the pregnancy test.
2.45pm, reached the clinic to obtain a form to proceed to level 4 (also the place I had my OSCAR test) for the detailed scan. Although the appointment made for the detailed scan was at 3.30pm, the nurse at the clinic wanted me to go register earlier so that I need not wait too long.
3.30pm, my name was called and I proceed to enter the scanning room. The room was no difference to what I went during the OSCAR test when I'm in week 12. I lie in the bed waiting patiently for the sonographer to enter. Hui sat at the chair beside me to keep me company. I was really nervous then, hoping the scans would be fine.
5 mins later, the sonographer entered the room and the scanned started. It took about 1hour to finish scanning because my darlings just refused to stay still. They were very active that day and the positions were just not right to get the required information. The sonographer had to shake my big tummy vigorously in order for them to change another position. I wondered if she had shaken too hard and caused giddiness to my little precious.
After the scanned, I was asked to wait outside and collect my report in a few mins. Before I came out of the room, I had already asked the sonographer and she said everything was good. Therefore I was not that nervous anymore when waiting for the report. Few mins later, I collected my report and went back to level 3 to visit my gynae.
As usual , the waiting time at the clinic was forever so long. I waited for about 1hour before my turn was called to enter the gynae's room. The gynae explained the scanning result to me based on the report and said everything was fine. All the internal organs, measurements, position of placenta, amniotic fluid etc were in good shape.
Hui and I left the clinic feeling relief, tired, hungry and heartache! Heartache because the carpark fee cost $10+ just for that few hours we were there!
Hmmm...after reading so long, it seems I havent come to the main topic right? Just to keep you readers gan chiong..:p
Well, Hui and I are going to have 2 little PRINCESS! Yes, for those who didnt catch the hint during my very first blog about the pregnancy and also hints all over the website (I think only Ricky did!), I am having twins! It was already discovered when I went for my first scanning. Ofcoz everyone will think it will be more perfect if it's 1 boy and 1 girl. But that's not what we can ancipate or do. Moreover, it's the guy who determine if it will be a girl or boy, not the lady!
Anyway, we are contented with this precious gift given to us as not everyone had a chance to carry 2 at 1 time. So the gender doesnt really matter to us as long as both are healthy when born and I can pass through the pregnancy process successfully. That's what we are really hoping for now!
The up-coming life will be tough with handling 2 babies at the same time (moreover, we are 1st time parents!!) and the cost of living will also be higher with the addition of 2 new members to the family at the SAME time. But I'm sure both of us will pass through this together.
Anyway want to sponsor many many many shopping vouchers to lessen our burden?? Haha...:)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
My Birthday
This year birthday was celebrated with 3 different group of people at 3 different places.
Birthday Celebration #1
Date: 8th March 2008
Venue: Limei's house
Food: Steamboat
10th March was Jenny's birthday and 11th was mine. So we always celebrated our birthday together with our other secondary school gang. We have known each other since 1994 and till date, we had been friends for 14 years!! Many had got married and some attached. We are now left with Peiyi who still trying to find a partner! Guess we had to speed up in finding a partner for her.:p 2 of us are patiently waiting for our baby to come to this world. Limei will be due in early May, while me in July.
Thanks, to the good old friends who attended the gathering cum birthday celebration that day and made Jenny & my birthday a meaningful one!
Enough said, let the photos do the talking.
The food!
The gang of food lovers
(From left) Baldwin, Karen, Xinyi, Jenny, Jimmy, Phyllis, Jiwei, Limei, ME & Hui. Can you guess who is whose partner? ^_^
The birthday girls
The girls rules!
Our most NEWLY couple - Jimmy & Phyllis!
What a compatible match, 1 white & 1 black!Haha
Birthday Celebration #2
Date: 9th March 2008
Venue: Jessica/Vincent house
Food: Nasi Lemak
Hui & I went to his 2nd sister & BIL's house for lunch. They had prepared Nasi Lemak for us and home-baked walnut brownie. Although it was just a simple home-made meal, but I could see the sincerity in preparing this meal for my birthday. They also bought me Clarins stretch mark cream as my birthday present. This save me some money to buy a second bottle since my first one is finishing soon. After the lunch, all 4 of us went for window shopping for some baby stuffs comparing the prices and aiming for things to buy. I am waiting for the Expo baby fair on 21st-23rd March before starting my baby shopping spree! We then had dinner at Tong Shui@Upper Thomson before heading home for rest.
Thanks, Jess & Vince for the wonderful lunch, the present and the company. :)
Birthday Celebration #3
Date: 11th March 2008
Venue: Equinox
Food: Western/Chinese cuisine
Ofcoz, the actual day should be left to be celebrated with my dearest dear. Both of us took leave on this day to spent some quality time together since I had been working non-stop for the past few wkdays! Nothing much, just went to Marina Square and Suntec for some window shopping to pass the time before heading to Equinox for dinner. Hui had made a reservation at 6.30pm.
The ambience was good overlooking many skyscrapers at 70th floor. Hui had managed to book a window seat so we got quite a good view. But the food was really just so so only. Not many choices to choose from and mostly were not to my taste. But the service was really good. When I first enter the restaurant and got seated, the waiter brought me a cushion for me to lean as I was seating on those couch seat. For the other customers, they don't seem to get this cushion. Probably pregnant woman does have some privilege. :)
One of the waiter was willing to direct me all the way to the restroom (I need to climb up and down some stairs, turn here turn there before I can reach the restroom!) because I couldnt catch what he was talking about. Another waiter was kind enough to ask if I need some warm water to keep myself warm after we finish our meal. However, I do not think I will be back for a 2nd time with the price to pay for such meals.
As for the present, he said the Canon camera and photo printer we bought at the IT Fair on 6th March would be my birthday present. It cost $600+ in total which I said it was too much for a birthday present. So I volunteered to split the cost and pay him back but he refused to take. Then on the actual day, Hui passed me another present! He had bought me a MP4 when he was in Shanghai last month. He had secretly hide the present and waited till this day before passing it to me. It's a 4GB MP4! Electronic devices were selling cheap in China and this MP4 only cost about $90 SGD!
(He had also help me bought a Kingston 4GB thumbdrive from Shanghai which cost about $40 SGD) I hinted for one few months ago as I wanted to use it to store my baby photos and video of my baby to show it to my colleagues and friends. I can also use it if I am taking public transport back home since I do not drive now. Now my wish is fulfilled! ^_^
Thanks, to my dearest dear for always there for me when I needed you most. And not forgetting the money you always spent on my birthday and that sentence you always said to me (after you had started earning your own income): "There is no budget when it's your birthday" :)
The day view from our table.
It was raining heavily that day so that explains those rain droplets from the window
The night view from our table
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Birthday Celebration #1
Date: 8th March 2008
Venue: Limei's house
Food: Steamboat
10th March was Jenny's birthday and 11th was mine. So we always celebrated our birthday together with our other secondary school gang. We have known each other since 1994 and till date, we had been friends for 14 years!! Many had got married and some attached. We are now left with Peiyi who still trying to find a partner! Guess we had to speed up in finding a partner for her.:p 2 of us are patiently waiting for our baby to come to this world. Limei will be due in early May, while me in July.
Thanks, to the good old friends who attended the gathering cum birthday celebration that day and made Jenny & my birthday a meaningful one!
Enough said, let the photos do the talking.
(From left) Baldwin, Karen, Xinyi, Jenny, Jimmy, Phyllis, Jiwei, Limei, ME & Hui. Can you guess who is whose partner? ^_^
What a compatible match, 1 white & 1 black!Haha
Birthday Celebration #2
Date: 9th March 2008
Venue: Jessica/Vincent house
Food: Nasi Lemak
Hui & I went to his 2nd sister & BIL's house for lunch. They had prepared Nasi Lemak for us and home-baked walnut brownie. Although it was just a simple home-made meal, but I could see the sincerity in preparing this meal for my birthday. They also bought me Clarins stretch mark cream as my birthday present. This save me some money to buy a second bottle since my first one is finishing soon. After the lunch, all 4 of us went for window shopping for some baby stuffs comparing the prices and aiming for things to buy. I am waiting for the Expo baby fair on 21st-23rd March before starting my baby shopping spree! We then had dinner at Tong Shui@Upper Thomson before heading home for rest.
Thanks, Jess & Vince for the wonderful lunch, the present and the company. :)
Birthday Celebration #3
Date: 11th March 2008
Venue: Equinox
Food: Western/Chinese cuisine
Ofcoz, the actual day should be left to be celebrated with my dearest dear. Both of us took leave on this day to spent some quality time together since I had been working non-stop for the past few wkdays! Nothing much, just went to Marina Square and Suntec for some window shopping to pass the time before heading to Equinox for dinner. Hui had made a reservation at 6.30pm.
The ambience was good overlooking many skyscrapers at 70th floor. Hui had managed to book a window seat so we got quite a good view. But the food was really just so so only. Not many choices to choose from and mostly were not to my taste. But the service was really good. When I first enter the restaurant and got seated, the waiter brought me a cushion for me to lean as I was seating on those couch seat. For the other customers, they don't seem to get this cushion. Probably pregnant woman does have some privilege. :)
One of the waiter was willing to direct me all the way to the restroom (I need to climb up and down some stairs, turn here turn there before I can reach the restroom!) because I couldnt catch what he was talking about. Another waiter was kind enough to ask if I need some warm water to keep myself warm after we finish our meal. However, I do not think I will be back for a 2nd time with the price to pay for such meals.
As for the present, he said the Canon camera and photo printer we bought at the IT Fair on 6th March would be my birthday present. It cost $600+ in total which I said it was too much for a birthday present. So I volunteered to split the cost and pay him back but he refused to take. Then on the actual day, Hui passed me another present! He had bought me a MP4 when he was in Shanghai last month. He had secretly hide the present and waited till this day before passing it to me. It's a 4GB MP4! Electronic devices were selling cheap in China and this MP4 only cost about $90 SGD!
(He had also help me bought a Kingston 4GB thumbdrive from Shanghai which cost about $40 SGD) I hinted for one few months ago as I wanted to use it to store my baby photos and video of my baby to show it to my colleagues and friends. I can also use it if I am taking public transport back home since I do not drive now. Now my wish is fulfilled! ^_^
Thanks, to my dearest dear for always there for me when I needed you most. And not forgetting the money you always spent on my birthday and that sentence you always said to me (after you had started earning your own income): "There is no budget when it's your birthday" :)
It was raining heavily that day so that explains those rain droplets from the window
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
I did it!
On Monday, I received yet another requirement into my bucket. I was fuming with anger by this time as I am not a superwoman anymore. So I decided to buck up my courage and talk to my teamlead regarding about this. I waited for him to get online till about 10+pm but he was nowhere to be seen. Therefore, I targeted the assistant teamlead instead, which was a very nice lady I had worked with in some of the requirements for a project last year.....
Sametime (MSN equivalent but is a chat program use internally) conversation:
*conversations are edited to protect some confidential information*
.....
Asst TL: This new requirement N received last week and specifically requested for you to work on it. We are in the process of leveling everyone out so either
one or two of your requirements will be removed.
Shara: i need to inform of my current health problem now that I'm abit afraid that I will not be able to handle the stress and long working hours anymore as per during GX times
Asst TL: I understand. And this will be fixed.
.....
Asst TL: ok. Ping me the requirement numbers and let me look into this today and make the necessary changes.
.....
Asst TL: No problem at all. Please feel free to come to me in the future if there are problems issues or otherwise....Good news. ;)
Asst TL: We will get thru this. Just take care of yourself and the baby.
The next day night at 11+pm. I finally managed to catch that TL:
....
TL: btw...I spoke with S... I'm sorry that you're not feeling as normal...but still congratulations!!
TL: we did reassign the CCS RQ...
Shara: :).....I'm sorry for pushing away the RQ too
TL: we will try to assign RQ's that are not so stressful...(I really wanted you on this one because it requires meticulous work)
Shara: but I dun wan to bring this up until the last min and miss the deliverables
TL: but I think your health and well-being comes first
TL: understand
TL: and quite appreciated
Shara: yes, I understand ur intention of giving me that CCS RQ....and S told me you specifically wanted me to handle it..:)
TL: I know I'm disappointed..but again...your health and that of the babies are more important
I'm so relief now although I'm actually quite interested to take up the CCS requirement as it's quite a challenging piece of work involving financial process and interfaces to downstream financial system. But ofcourse, currently my health is my top priority.
I can now fully concentrate on my existing requirements on hand, which I think left about 3 (all dateline in March!!) and have time to go for SAP courses in April onwards. My local manager had been asking us to sign up for courses this year as it's one of our Individual Development Plan policy. But I told him I can hardly see when I will have the time because going for courses will take up a few days and that means I will have to work extra hard at night which I don't want!
The first project UAT phase starts around April till June. In between we had to solve any issues that arise during the testing and this project go-live in July. The other in Oct/Nov (cant rem), which by the time I might not be around to support the testing anymore :)
Therefore, I THINK my life might be better starting April *cross my finger nothing extra come to me again*
Time to look through the SAP courses (which I dump the list in my drawer since beginning of the year) and choose a few courses to go to..:D
PS: Thanks to all who responded to my woe. Greatly appreciated for your advise/comments.
Sametime (MSN equivalent but is a chat program use internally) conversation:
*conversations are edited to protect some confidential information*
.....
Asst TL: This new requirement N received last week and specifically requested for you to work on it. We are in the process of leveling everyone out so either
one or two of your requirements will be removed.
Shara: i need to inform of my current health problem now that I'm abit afraid that I will not be able to handle the stress and long working hours anymore as per during GX times
Asst TL: I understand. And this will be fixed.
.....
Asst TL: ok. Ping me the requirement numbers and let me look into this today and make the necessary changes.
.....
Asst TL: No problem at all. Please feel free to come to me in the future if there are problems issues or otherwise....Good news. ;)
Asst TL: We will get thru this. Just take care of yourself and the baby.
The next day night at 11+pm. I finally managed to catch that TL:
....
TL: btw...I spoke with S... I'm sorry that you're not feeling as normal...but still congratulations!!
TL: we did reassign the CCS RQ...
Shara: :).....I'm sorry for pushing away the RQ too
TL: we will try to assign RQ's that are not so stressful...(I really wanted you on this one because it requires meticulous work)
Shara: but I dun wan to bring this up until the last min and miss the deliverables
TL: but I think your health and well-being comes first
TL: understand
TL: and quite appreciated
Shara: yes, I understand ur intention of giving me that CCS RQ....and S told me you specifically wanted me to handle it..:)
TL: I know I'm disappointed..but again...your health and that of the babies are more important
I'm so relief now although I'm actually quite interested to take up the CCS requirement as it's quite a challenging piece of work involving financial process and interfaces to downstream financial system. But ofcourse, currently my health is my top priority.
I can now fully concentrate on my existing requirements on hand, which I think left about 3 (all dateline in March!!) and have time to go for SAP courses in April onwards. My local manager had been asking us to sign up for courses this year as it's one of our Individual Development Plan policy. But I told him I can hardly see when I will have the time because going for courses will take up a few days and that means I will have to work extra hard at night which I don't want!
The first project UAT phase starts around April till June. In between we had to solve any issues that arise during the testing and this project go-live in July. The other in Oct/Nov (cant rem), which by the time I might not be around to support the testing anymore :)
Therefore, I THINK my life might be better starting April *cross my finger nothing extra come to me again*
Time to look through the SAP courses (which I dump the list in my drawer since beginning of the year) and choose a few courses to go to..:D
PS: Thanks to all who responded to my woe. Greatly appreciated for your advise/comments.
